Gay men's specialist psychotherapist and life/bs ach, Ken Howard, LCSW, discs gay men and tattoos, and their rual and meang therapy.
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A GAY THERAPIST DISCS GAY MEN AND TATTOOS: RUAL AND MEANG
* is it gay to get a tattoo on your right arm *
(This mol is not necsarily gay, but gay men n imbue their tattoos wh great meang. In my private practice as a psychotherapist who specializ workg wh gay men, was a surprise to me when several years to my practice I noticed a pattern that gay men like to talk about how the tattoos they have hold special, even profound meang for them.
I gus straight people and lbians also have meangful tattoos, but sce my practice foc on gay men’s needs, I hear about tattoos that ntext. When we talk about gay men therapy, has to be a certa culturally-affirmative ntext. Gay men actually tap to a lot of “mascule perspective” energy, whether ’s how we approach work, our hom, money, health (pecially fns and mculary), and of urse sexualy.
While we have a lot mon wh straight men and that whole “men are om Mars, women are om Ven” thg, gay men put their own sp on tradnally mascule thgs like mculary and tattoos (and rs, too). It’s also sexy that tattoos are only removable wh great difficulty, so ’s a mment, and havg the strength of your nvictns to make a permanent mment to a visually-exprsed ia that has profound meang for a person n be sexy self; ’s the strength of that mment and standg up for what you believe , which gay men need after a lifetime of growg up wh anti-gay sentiment all around polil rhetoric, laws, bullyg, and other opprsn.